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This project investigates how multilingual practices in Papua New Guinea influence language convergence and divergence. It focuses on the sociocultural factors that drive multilingual speakers to innovate their speech, potentially leading to distinct linguistic identities within their communities.
It is widely assumed that languages in contact will tend to converge, either lexically, structurally or both.
Multilingual speech practices drive the convergence: multilinguals economize cognitive resources by importing lexical items and grammatical structures from one language to another, gradually causing the languages they speak to become more alike.
However, recent research suggests that the relationship between convergence and language contact is contingent on social context.
Social environ…
FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA
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Australia, Canberra
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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